8 Million
The myths of popular culture – romance and TV soaps – provide the motifs for the work which restructures memory-image-fragments to foreground the body against a mechanized landscape. In the shape of small stories, ‘8 Million’ rewrites women's drama.
The artists have worked together previously as part of ‘Video Musica’ held at The Garage, New York City in the autumn of 1989, in which some of these songs were performed live. The project is particularly suited to the past accomplishments of these artists: Abigail Child's previous work in 16mm investigates sexuality and voyeurism while employing dense musical soundtracks and the work of Ikue Mori has a strong narrative quality. Musicians include: Catherine Jauniaux (vocals), Zeena Parkins (accordian), Hahn Rowe (violin) and Ikue Mori (percussion).
This collaboration focuses on the relationship between sound and music. It stresses the potential for image to take its place as a musical component, to be a member of the band and on occasion to be the basis of the score: image as conductor, the music performed to the video. In addition, the production of a Video Album reconstitutes the idea of the musical record, establishing a new unit or mode to experience sound and image.
Description source: Cinenova paper archive
